Forums have been slow, how about a 'In the mail' thread?
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Re: Forums have been slow, how about a 'In the mail' thread?
DemonFX Cali76 Bass Compressor, interested to see what this does for my bass toan.
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Re: Forums have been slow, how about a 'In the mail' thread?
How does a company/website like that exist without getting constantly shut down?
The fact that they copyright their products seems utterly bonkers to me.
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Unless theres a patent on the circuit then they don't have much of a leg to stand on, I don't think the chinese govt could give a toss about this kinda thing.
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You can copyright the name, artwork, design, but you can't copyright circuits.
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Yeah, I’m talking about the artwork.NippleWrestler wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 11:06 amYou can copyright the name, artwork, design, but you can't copyright circuits.
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Have messed about it on and off again, its kinda fun to play!
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Are you going to have two on your board?
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Re: Forums have been slow, how about a 'In the mail' thread?
Getting down into the weeds, the only thing that can be copyrighted are the pcb layout and the schematic drawing, which count as "art".jeremyb wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 10:31 amUnless theres a patent on the circuit then they don't have much of a leg to stand on, I don't think the chinese govt could give a toss about this kinda thing.
Meaning if you take the original schematic, redraw it, and layout your own PCB then it's fair game.
It goes down another layer since there's only about 7 or 8 general ways of doing an overdrive/dirt circuit in a guitar pedals so everyone is copying someone else's idea at some point. This is why people can say it's YATS when they see a circuit and not be quite correct – I'd say to be a YATS it needs the mid roll off, soft clipping, and that specific type of tone control. For instance you could swap out the buffer JFET of a Rat to be an Opamp so you'd have a Dual opamp chip like a tubescreamer, and change the hard clipping to soft clipping and you'd have it look like a YATS but not actually be so.
The ethics are all murky.
I could use my Bronson pedal as an example – I used the bedrock of a Blues Pro as the general inspiration, used the bass control of a timmy but preset the lowest bass point to do the midhump of a tubescreamer, and a final filtering stage of a Barber LTD. Is it a Timmy? Is it a Blues Pro? Is it an LTD? Is it YATS? Yeah, all of those?
I call it a Bronson because smashing that all together makes it its own weird thing.
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I have a yellow on my board. I'll see if this kicks the limelight off, but that would require an improbability engine of some sorts.
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All fair points, but I was more commenting on how close the artwork is to existing pedal designs. They’re clearly infringing on copyright there.TmcB wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 1:48 pmGetting down into the weeds, the only thing that can be copyrighted are the pcb layout and the schematic drawing, which count as "art".
Meaning if you take the original schematic, redraw it, and layout your own PCB then it's fair game.
It goes down another layer since there's only about 7 or 8 general ways of doing an overdrive/dirt circuit in a guitar pedals so everyone is copying someone else's idea at some point. This is why people can say it's YATS when they see a circuit and not be quite correct – I'd say to be a YATS it needs the mid roll off, soft clipping, and that specific type of tone control. For instance you could swap out the buffer JFET of a Rat to be an Opamp so you'd have a Dual opamp chip like a tubescreamer, and change the hard clipping to soft clipping and you'd have it look like a YATS but not actually be so.
The ethics are all murky.
I could use my Bronson pedal as an example – I used the bedrock of a Blues Pro as the general inspiration, used the bass control of a timmy but preset the lowest bass point to do the midhump of a tubescreamer, and a final filtering stage of a Barber LTD. Is it a Timmy? Is it a Blues Pro? Is it an LTD? Is it YATS? Yeah, all of those?
I call it a Bronson because smashing that all together makes it its own weird thing.
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Wow, ok. Yeah, rant on, that’s ballsy AF.
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that's theft.
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